J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Shrine by a Mountain Road; ?Chartreuse 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Shrine by a Mountain Road; ?Chartreuse’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Shrine by a Mountain Road; ?Chartreuse 1802
D40199
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper, 214 x 282 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing is on the verso of D04581; Turner Bequest LXXIV 88, which has a view of Rives drawn as Turner approached the Isère Valley. The present subject is unidentified but might be in the Chartreuse.

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Shrine by a Mountain Road; ?Chartreuse 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-shrine-by-a-mountain-road-chartreuse-r1146459, accessed 20 April 2024.